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Steve Gallagher (802) 223-0505, or send E-mail to the address below. If you are coming up here this summer to visit, click on the links below for directions on how to get here from central Vermont:
Click here for information
on how to get there:
North Lake
East Point
If you want to rent a house here at East point, we recommend talking to our neighbor here in East Point, David Cheverie. See info at www.eastpointhomestead.com
Basin
Head Beach
see www.onpei.com
Grama
Ernestine went to the beachmy mother stands on her own two feet again.
Steadied on either side by grown grandchildren, she marches
across saw-grass dunes, poses laughing
on the edge of a red sandstone cliff, squints
at forget-me-not blue waters of the Northumberland Strait
like a navigator getting her bearings
between one landfall and the next.
"So that's the ocean," she says.
"We didn't have red sand in Nebraska."
She speaks of lobsters, potato fields, oats and barley
growing golden to the sea as if she were
some ancient female Columbus discovering
a new world.
"At eighty-seven,"she tells me, "I don't expect
to have so many new experiences."
I don't remind her she's seen the ocean time and time again,
sailed the East Coast in a 52-foot ketch,
learned to love shellfish and stone-walled fields;
that she last saw Nebraska in 1929.
She falls in the night, picks up
skinned knee and scraped elbow, changes
her own diaper, swims back into bed:
Still fogged in, but safely ashore.
Leslie Williams